Mayor Lightfoot knocks elected school board compromise for Chicago Public Schools as ‘having nothing to do with democracy’ but says it’s ‘not real yet’

At the same time, the coalition, which includes such organizations as the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, Pilsen Alliance and Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, said the bill’s passage in the Senate “proves there is overwhelming consensus that Chicago’s experiment with mayoral control has been an abysmal failure, especially for the district’s Black and Brown families.”